AFP - Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the Internet during the Beijing Olympics, Games organisers said Wednesday, reversing a pledge to bring down the Chinese firewall of censorship.
PC World - The European Environmental Agency and Microsoft have built a Web portal showing the water quality ranking for 21,000 sites... -- read full article
PC World - Journalists connecting to the Internet at the Beijing International Media Center are discovering China is still blocking... -- read full article
Reuters - The United States will launch a pilot
scheme on Friday which will require travelers covered by its
visa waiver programme to get prior Internet authorization
before boarding flights to America. -- read full article
NewsFactor - The latest search war is being touted as a David and Goliath battle. In modern-day terms, that means Cuil versus Google. -- read full article
NewsFactor - In response to demands from game publisher Hasbro, Facebook has disabled the Scrabble-like game Scrabulous on its U.S. and Canadian Web sites. -- read full article
PC World - Microsoft has released an API that allows Web sites to send location information to GPS navigation devices as part of an... -- read full article
AP - Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens has sold all of his holdings in Yahoo Inc. in a pique over the way the Internet company's management handled sales talks with Microsoft Corp.
Reuters - A fifth of U.S. television viewers are
putting down their remote controls and clicking on a mouse
instead to watch primetime programs online -- particularly
professional women, according to a new survey. -- read full article
AP - The creators of a Scrabble knockoff responsible for countless hours at the online hangout Facebook suspended their word game Tuesday after being hit with a lawsuit, disappointing fans who logged on expecting to make their next moves.
Reuters - China has installed Internet-spying
equipment in all the major hotel chains serving the 2008 Summer
Olympics, a U.S. senator charged on Tuesday.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The nation's largest telecom company and the Rural Cellular Association have asked the FCC to scrutinize the proposal to deploy a nationwide broadband network. -- read full article
Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc
posted a higher quarterly profit on strong wireless sales, but
its shares fell on worries about its declining landlines and
weaker-than-expected growth in its FiOS Internet and video
service.
NewsFactor - According to the China Internet Network Information Center, more than 253 million people in China are now online. By contrast, Nielsen Online reports more than 220 million Americans have Internet access at home and/or work, and 73 percent of those were active in May. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Founded by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, Cuil aims to rank the relevancy search results by content analysis rather than by popularity. -- read full article
